LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper . . . the lickspittle is only the blackmailer under another aspect, although the latter is frequently found as an independent species.

DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse.

Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.

The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forebearance among men.

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

The ghost is the outward and visible signs of an inward fear.

Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.